Berkhout, Darby '85 - Rowing

A Most Valuable player for the First Soccer team, two time Oarsmen of the year and winner of the Stotesbury, Canadian National, and Henley Royal Thames Cup Challenge Championships – and all that was just in high school. Darby took the next step in his athletic career on Canada’s west coast where he rowed at the University of Victoria and joined the Canadian National team. Over a four-year career, he competed at two World University games, the Commonwealth Games, the Pan Am Games, the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. His greatest sport memory is a tie between winning the 1985 Men’s 8 at Schoolboy and walking into the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games.

With more than 700 students from 50+ countries, the largest boarding programme in Ontario and the third largest in Canada, Ridley College is a truly international, co-educational, day and boarding school of the world that prepares students for the world. It has provided enriching learning and life-shaping experiences focused on the arts, academics, and athletics since 1889. Ridley’s Lower School offers JK-Grade 8, its Upper School consists of Grade 9-PG, and Ridley graduates attend some of the top universities and colleges around the world. Ridley is the only independent boarding school in Canada and one of only three in North America authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) continuum programme.